How To Use Hindoo In A Sentence
-
Thus Carey sought to turn to Christ the twelve millions of Hindoos who, from Western India above and below the great coast-range known as the Sahyadri or "delectable" mountains, had nearly wrested the whole peninsula from the Mohammedans, and had almost anticipated the life-giving rule of the British, first at Panipat and then as Assye.
Life of William Carey
-
The other two chiefs are a Negro and a Hindoo; the adept is a Malay.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 02
-
Thus, in their enthusiasm -- which is only a minor madness -- whether the Hindoo bramin or the Spanish bigot, the English roundhead or the follower of the "only true faith" at Mecca, be understood, it is but a word and a blow -- though the word be a hurried prayer to the God of their adoration, and the blow be aimed with all the malevolence of hell at the bosom of a fellow-creature.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
-
Protestants: and we expect that Hindoos, who believe that the privileges of Hindooism can be forfeited by a merely physical act, will expose theirs to the danger of being made Christians!
Representative Government
-
The game of the Hindoos, called pachisi, is played upon a cross-shaped board or cloth; it is a combination of checkers and draughts, with the throwing of dice, the dice determining the number of moves; when the Spaniards entered Mexico they found the Aztecs playing a game called patolli, identical with the Hindoo pachisi, on a similar cross-shaped board.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
-
A second curiosity in the fort is a small unimportant temple, now much dilapidated, which is considered as very sacred by the Hindoos.
A Woman's Journey Round the World
-
For instance, there was the great Mahommedan contact, which resulted in depriving the Hindoo women of their former liberty, and introducing such customs as early marriage, resulting in physical degeneracy to some extent.
New Forces in Old India
-
I growled that I didn't put any faith in latrine-gossip - especially if the latrine was a Hindoo one, and at this one of the older men, Sardul something-or-other, shook his head and says gravely:
Fiancée
-
Phoenicians; or secondly, that these islands were looked upon by them as a sacred spot for the burial of their dead, as the Hindoo looks upon the Ganges, and the Persian regards the shrines of Kerbela and Meshed.
Southern Arabia
-
Moreover, the tremendous thunder-storms ran up and down the wires and melted the conductors; the monsoon winds tore the teak-posts out of the sodden ground; the elephants and buffaloes trampled the fallen lines into kinks and tangles; the Delta aborigines carried off the timber supports for fuel, and the wires or iron rods upon them to make bracelets and to supply the Hindoo smitheries; the cotton - and rice-boats, kedging up and down the river, dragged the subaqueous wires to the surface.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
-
Material or Ideal form, is nothing else than the revival of some of the earliest and most inveterate Principles of Paganism, -- the same Paganism which still flourishes among the "theosophic" dreamers of India, and which exhibits its practical fruits in the horrors of Hindoo superstition.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
-
Krishnu {u-caron} and his concubine Radha, among the favourite deities of the Hindoos ...
Life of William Carey
-
There was a very slim, languid-looking beauty in a gold sari reclining in the palankeen, another plump piece in scarlet trousers and jacket beside her, and a third, very black, but fine-boned as a Swede, with a pearl headdress that must have cost my year's pay, sitting in a kind of camp-chair alongside — even the ladies 'maid standing beside the palankeen was a looker, with great almond eyes and a figure inside her plain white sari like a Hindoo temple goddess.
Flashman In The Great Game
-
In the month of June, 1840, Lieutenant Sturt was ordered to survey the passes of the Hindoo Koosh, and I obtained leave from my regiment, then in camp at Cabul, for the purpose of accompanying him; my object was simply to seek pleasant adventures; the "_cacoethes ambulandi_" was strong upon me, and I thirsted to visit the capital of ancient
A Peep into Toorkisthhan
-
And when that time comes - I may share the sport, and hallal* (* Ritual throat-cutting.) these Hindoo and foreign swine, with my lads?
Fiancée
-
Tall Sikhs, whose hair and beards have never known scissors or razor, and who stride along with a swagger and high-caste dignity; effeminate Cingalese; Hindoo clerks, smirking, conceited and dandified too, according to their own notions; almost naked palkee-bearers, who nevertheless, if there is the slightest shower, put up an umbrella to protect their shaven crowns; up-country girls with rings in their noses and rings on their toes; little
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
-
Dermot Killingley, however, cites a reference to "Hindooism" by Rammohun Roy in 1816.
The Rammohun Roy connection
-
Had I not sat with Malays, and collogued with negroes, and eaten ancient shark with Hindoos?
A Tramp's Notebook
-
The Oxford English Dictionary traces "Hindooism" to an 1829 reference in the Bengalee, Vol 43, and also refers to an 1858 usage by the German Indologist Max Müller.
Archive 2008-03-01
-
Hume certainly would not have accepted the "rice theory" in explanation of the social state of the Hindoos; and, it may be safely assumed, that he would not have had recourse to the circumambience of the "melancholy main" to account for the troublous history of Ireland.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
-
From a printed curiosity -- a letter written by one of those brave and confident Hindoo strugglers with the English tongue, called a "babu" -- I got a more compressed translation: "Godville.
Following the Equator
-
This place bears evidence of having been ruled over by some chief pretending to Hindooism.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
-
Hindoos, are given in marriage to one bramhun {u-caron}, in order to make these families something more respectable, and that the parents may be able to say, we are allied by marriage to the kooleens ...
Life of William Carey
-
Mauritius, beautiful appearance ofGreat crateriform ring of MountainsHindoosSt.
Chapter XXI
-
Phoenicians; or secondly, that these islands were looked upon by them as a sacred spot for the burial of their dead, as the Hindoo looks upon the Ganges, and the Persian regards the shrines of Kerbela and Meshed.
Southern Arabia
-
I have heard it traced to the Hindoostanee word bhai, a brother, but the usual attitude of the Anglo-Indian's mind towards his domestics does not give sufficient support to this.
Behind the Bungalow
-
Drawing himself into a sitting position, the Hindoo took the _tallith_, pressed it into the palm of his hand and sat for a short time without speaking.
The Coming of the King
-
Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform ring of mountains — Hindoos — St. Helena —
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
-
The terrible figure of Draupadi, as she dishevels her long black hair, is the very impersonation of revenge; and a Hindoo audience never fails to shudder at her fearful vow -- that the straggling tresses shall never again be tied up until the day when Bhima shall have fulfilled his vow, and shall then bind them up whilst his fingers are still dripping with the blood of Duhsasana.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
-
I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs.
Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
-
'Arriving at a convenient spot, the Hindoo seated himself under a tree, prepared his hookha, drew from his wrapper the bottle of spirits, and a small cup he had provided; and if ever he knew what happiness was in his life, this moment was surely his happiest.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
-
-- The city here represented is the religious centre of Hindooism, and one of the oldest cities on the globe.
Shepp's Photographs of the World
-
Hindooism is more fantastic, and less pleasingly endeared to us, than the paganism of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
-
There was a very slim, languid-looking beauty in a gold sari reclining in the palankeen, another plump piece in scarlet trousers and jacket beside her, and a third, very black, but fine-boned as a Swede, with a pearl headdress that must have cost my year's pay, sitting in a kind of camp-chair alongside - even the ladies 'maid standing beside the palankeen was a looker, with great almond eyes and a figure inside her plain white sari like a Hindoo temple goddess.
Fiancée
-
The Hindoos have also terms in their language for the tonic, mediant and dominant, so that they know something of harmony, of which the Malays seem quite ignorant.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
-
Hindoo pothukoor (whence our word apothecary) feeling my pulse and looking at me with an air of sagacity.
Burlesques
-
Hindooism says that the moon, Soma, was turned into a female called Chandra -- 'the White or Silvery One.'
Moon Lore
-
He is very recondite in his images, and you are sometimes reminded of one storming in English at a Hindoo -- it is pointless fury, boltless thunder.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2
